ART & DEATH: A Collection of Prose & Poetry - Softcover

Stephen Barber; Antony Copley; Donald Kuspit; Simon Lane; Stephen Newton; Roy Oxlade; George Pattison; Amos Poe; Mike Von Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956103839 ISBN 13: 9780956103833

Publisher: Ziggurat Books International, 2009

Synopsis

A collection of observation and personal reminiscence on the precarious subject of death, written in language that is academic, poetic and sometimes, revealingly, both. Aesthetics sit side-by-side with sentient expressions of despair in this collaboration that embraces the thoughts and feelings of art critics, philosophers, film-makers, poets, and painters. Art & Death questions the premise that death - in its various and ingenious forms - is a natural and therefore acceptable aspect of life, and reveals the many secret and transitory deaths that are manifest along life's passage.

Contributors include Stephen Barber, Henry Ralph Carse, Judith Chandler, Antony Copley,Piers Faccini, Michael Florescu, Dom Gabrielli, Donald Kuspit, Simon Lane, Stephen Newton, Roy Oxlade, George Pattison, Amos Poe, Marcus Reichert, Edward Rozzo, Sr Anselma Scollard OSB, and Mike von Joel.

Illustrated in black and white with works of art and rare photographs of the writers and their subjects. Images include the correspondence of Ronnie Kray, photographs of Antonin Artaud, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Alfred Hitchcock, Guy & Simon Lane, Amos Poe, Cookie Mueller, Joseph Goebbels, Jackson Pollock, Edmond Jabés, and Michael Florescu. With works of art by Abrecht Dürer, Marianne Boutrit, Brueghel the Elder, Roy Oxlade, Rose Wylie, Diego Velasquez, Francis Bacon, Marcus Reichert, Stephen Newton, Alberto Giacometti, Judith Chandler, Piers Faccini, Andrea Mantegna, Michelangelo, and Vincent van Gogh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ziggurat Books International
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956103839
• ISBN 13: 9780956103833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Marcus Reichert